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VENTILATING BARREL. 1

No. 429,021. Z. a

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tINrTED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

JOIIN FRANK EAST, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FARMERSMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME. PLACE.

VENTlLATlNG-BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,021, dated May 27,1890.

Application filed April 3, 1890. Serial No. 346,475. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN FRANK EAST, of Norfolk, in the county ofNorfolk and State of Virginia, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Ventilating-Barrels, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to that class of bar.-

. rels or shipping-vessels whose sides are made of a single sheet ofveneer cut from a rollshaped block of wood; and it consists of a barrelcomposed of a veneer blank cut through its middle, with a series ofparallel slits extending transversly to the blank and longitudinally tothe barrel, but not out to either edge of the blank, thus leaving theedges of the blank (which form the chines of the barrel) continuous orunsevered, while the middle cut portion is expanded to give the bilge orcurve to the barrel and also form ventilatingopenings.

Figure 1 is a side View of my improved barrel. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the same, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the veneerblanks from which the. barrel is made. Fig. & is a side view of amodification, and Fig. 5is the blank employed for making the same.

In the drawings, A, Fig. 3, is the blank from which the body of thebarrel shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is made. This blank is made of veneer cutfrom a roll of wood and provided with parallel transverse slits or cutsa, arranged transversely to the length of the blank and extending onlythrough the middle portion of the blank, leaving the two sides 0 c ofthe blank uncut and continuous or iiitegral for the purpose of formingthe chine of the barrel. These slits a terminate at their ends in smallround holes I), the object of which is to prevent the ends of the slitsfrom splitting out to the edges of the blank. In forming these blanksthe roll of wood is indented or cut by a knife or die with impressionscorresponding to the slits a and holes 1) before the veneer is slicedoff by the knife, so'that when the veneer is cut off it will have in itthe necessary cuts without further treatment. The slits and holes in theveneer may,

however, be cut in the same after the veneer is sliced off. The sheet ofveneer, as shown in Fig. 3, is then taken and bent round, and the middleportion is expanded to a larger diameter to give at the same time thebilge or curve to the barrel and to open ventilating-spaces in thebarrel, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Hoops D D are then placed inside thebarrel to hold the sides of the barrel to its expanded form, andexternal hoops C C are then put on and nailed upon an iron form throughthe sides of the barrel and into the hoops D D the nails being clinchedso as to hold the hoops firmly to place. Internal and external end hoopsD D and C O are then nailed to the ends, and suitable heads are securedin the ends of the barrel inside the inner end hoops D D In making useof my invention I do not confine myself to barrels having a largerdiameter in the middle; but I may make either barrels, baskets, or otherreceptacles which have the smallest diameter in the middle, as shown inFig. 4. In this case nointernal hoop is needed in the middle, and theblank is constructed, as shown in Fig. 5, with slits a, that have somewidth by cutting out a narrow curved strip of veneer, in order to allowthe middle to be drawn to a smaller diameter than the ends;

I am aware that it is not new to make barrels of veneer, and that theends of a veneer barrel have been drawn together by first slitting theedges of the veneer blank in order to give the bilge or curve to thebarrel, and I do not claim any such construction.

In making use of my invention I may make tight barrels by using two thinlayers of veneer with the slits of one layer opposite the solid orimperforate sections of the other layer. I may also make the veneerblank in several sections, which are detached from each other, so thatthe barrel will be composed of several blanks instead of a single sheet.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is 1. A barrel orreceptacle having its sides composed of a sheet of veneer provided withparallel slits arranged lengthwise the barrel and terminating at adistance from the edges of the sheet and leaving the edges of the veneersheet continuous or integral, as shown and described.

2. A barrel or receptacle having its sides composed of a sheet of veneerprovided with parallel slits arranged lengthwise the barrel andterminating in round holes at a distance from the edges of the sheet andleaving the edges of the veneer sheet continuous or integral,substantially as shown and described.

A barrel or receptacle having its sides composed of a sheet of veneerprovided with parallel slits arranged lengthwise the barrel andterminating ata distance from the edges of the sheet and expanded in themiddle to a greater diameter than at the ends, substantially as shownand described.

l. A barrel or receptacle having its sides composed of a sheet of veneerprovided with parallel slits terminating in round holes at a distancefrom the edges of the sheet and expanded to a greater diameter in themiddle than it is at the ends, so as to give the bilge or curve to thebarrel and form ventilatingopenings, and having internal and externalhoops, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN FRANK EAST.

\Vitnesses:

W. E. lnowx, A. R. IIUDGINS.

